
A good friend (and fellow Southerner) with a knack for picking books that you are sure to be seeing on all the best beaches, recently recommended Kathryn Stockett’s fiction debut, The Help. The “help” in the title refers to the household variety, and, because this book is set in 1963 Jackson, Mississippi, the help is black. My friend promised me that this book was not a white bashing, southerners-still-want-slavery book, and that in fact, it takes Read More…